Senior Portraits

Jan 25 2019

Senior Portraits with Cousins | Mission Espada, San Antonio

Double Senior Portrait Session with Cousins at Mission San Francisco De La Espada in San Antonio, TX.

My cousins are some of my best friends. I come from a big family and I even have cousins that I call brothers and sisters. When I was 12, I along with 2 sisters and a brother were placed in a foster home. When my aunt found out, she and my uncle became licensed foster parents so that they could take us out of the foster home we were in. My aunt and uncle were my foster parents until the age of 18 so my cousins were really my brothers and sisters. My family all lived within 15 minutes of each other so family gatherings were huge with tons of cousins. We had so much fun photographing Gabby and Alexis’ senior portraits at Mission Espada over the holiday break. Gabby and Alexis are cousins that live in Missouri. Their families had planned a trip to visit their great grandmother in San Antonio for the holidays.

Aug 31 2018

Now Booking Spring 2019 Senior Portraits

I can’t believe we are almost completely booked for 2018! We have already started booking February and March 2019 Senior sessions so if you are graduating in 2019 and want to have some fun and get some amazing photos at the same time, be sure to give us a call so we can get you on our calendar! We had so much fun with all of our seniors this year and have some fun and exciting ideas for our 2019 Seniors!

What kind of extracurricular activities are you involved in? Do you play an instrument? Do you play sports? Are you on the debate team? Whatever it is that is your passion, we love to highlight each and every one of those accomplishments! Not one senior session is the same, we like to have fun and make sure that we are celebrating all of your accomplishments. Let’s plan something together! We promise it’ll be fun!

Jun 22 2018

A Sweet 16 & A San Antonio Send Off

It’s Not Goodbye, it’s See You Later!

I met Kati’s mom, Brandi, when I started to volunteer with Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep a few years ago. She is one of the coordinators of NILMDTS for San Antonio and she is also a photographer with Brandi Blake Photography. Because our group of volunteers is so small, we have all become good friends and practically family. We are each other’s support when our sessions are difficult and sad and we always have each other to talk to when our hearts are aching for families. Brandi had mentioned that Kati’s birthday was coming up and she wanted to do a special photo session as a gift for her daughter Kati. We had talked about doing a photo session together downtown. A few weeks later, Brandi told me that the military would be moving them once again. I told Brandi why not do her photos at a signature location in downtown San Antonio so that Kati could take that memory with her? Kati has babysat for us in the past and we have grown close to her this past year so it was bittersweet taking her photos. Of course, we were happy that she had so much fun and since she is a photographer’s child it was easy to take her photo but we were sad at the same time as well because we will miss our dear friends. But as a military family as well, we understand that moving is an inevitable part of military life.

Jun 08 2018

How to Celebrate your College graduation in style | Olvera Photography

“Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.” -Edmund Lee

When I came upon this quote I immediately thought of Zoheb. College is hard. College is stressful. And it is even harder when your parents are not there. Zoheb’s family is in India and were not going to be able to make it to his graduation at The University of Texas at San Antonio so not only did he have finals to deal with but also the fact that he would be crossing the stage and not see those happy tears and the proud faces of his parents. His parents still are his number one fans along with his girlfriend Mubeena, his girlfriend, who is the one who surprised Zoheb with this photo session!

May 25 2018

Celebrating Senior Year with Champagne, Glitter and Mike-her fur baby!

OLLU | The Historic Pearl | Senior Portraits

We had so much fun photographing Jessica’s senior portraits at OLLU and The Historic Pearl Brewery. She was such a good sport despite it being the coldest and windiest days of the year- seriously it was gorgeous all week and we woke up to cold and windy! But we were all having so much fun laughing that we forgot all about the wind. Jessica’s parents and best friend came along for support and what a hype man her bestie was- she had us all laughing and I love how Jessica’s beautiful natural laughs and smiles showed through in all her photos. I can still hear her laughing when I see these photos. She’s absolutely stunning!

Senior Portraits

Double Senior Portrait Session with Cousins at Mission San Francisco De La Espada in San Antonio, TX.

It’s Not Goodbye, it’s See You Later!

“Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.” -Edmund Lee

OLLU | The Historic Pearl | Senior Portraits

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